Ambrogio Gianotti

Don Antonio Ambrogio Gianotti (Senago, 28 October 1901 - Busto Arsizio, 13 April 1969) was a Catholic priest and member of the Italian resistance movement.

[1] Antonio Ambrogio Gianotti was born on 28 October 1901, in Vicolo Borghi 6, Senago.

He ran the church's food stamp centre, and would use his house as a place where resistance members could hold meetings or rest.

[3] It was in the church of St. Edward, at sunrise on the 25 April, that he and other resistance members ordered the liberation of the north of Italy from the fascist forces.

[3] Gianotti was given a gold medal for honorable citizen of Busto Arsizio, by the city's mayor, Gian Pietro Rossi, in 1966.

Don Ambrogio Gianotti
Don Gianotti and Cardinal Schuster , on the church’s opening day
Don Ambrogio Gianotti (second from the right front row) and other partigiani at the church of St. Edward, 1946
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